Medical television series as a means to educate the public on nutrition and healthy eating

This article presents the results of an extensive content analysis of nineteen USA medical television series broadcast in Spain in the last twenty years. The analysis of the medical series focuses on establishing their potential to educate the public on nutrition and healthy eating. The reason to study USA productions is based on two reasons: because these productions are exported worldwide and the USA has high rates of obesity, which could be reduced with prevention and nutritional education on the small screen. The interest for this analysis originated in a doctoral thesis, defended in July 2010.